Art of capitalizing typoscript letters.



No. 875,877. PATENTED JAN. 7, 1908.

H. WISE.

ART OF CAPITALIZING TYPOSGRIPT LETTERS- APPLIOATIOE FILED MAY 8. 1907.

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HENRY WISE, ()l NAhlAUPAUAN. lllllllPPlh'l'l ISLANDS.

I ART OF CAPITALIZING TYPOSCRIPT LETTERS.

.rlnplicatinii tiled May 8,1907. Serial N0. 372.632. I

.T 0 all uihio'gnit may concern:

. Belt known that L HENRY Wise, a citizen 01 United States, at present residing at Namacpacan, nion, Philippine .Islands, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Capitalizing Typoscript Le ters; and I do hereby /declare the followin to be afull, clear, and exact description of the/invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and uscthe same.

This invention has relation to writing orprinting produced by typewriting machines, which writing sometimes termed typoscript. 1.

It is the object of my invention to produce an improvement in the art of capitalizing typoscript matter that will enable the typoscribe to increase her or his speed quite materially, and to incidentally simplify the construction and o eration of the typewriter, contributing to tl ie increase in speed, and lessening its cost of manufacture.

The nature of the invention comprises an improvement in the art of capitalizing typo script letters, consisting in first imprinting an arbitrary character on the margin or-part ol' the margin of the space the letter is to take, and then imprinting a small" or lower-case letter in the said space, the snmll'letter l earing the same alphabetical name as the capital letter would hear without my improvement.

Reference may be had to the annexed drawing, forming a part of this specification, for a better understanding of my methodcl' indicating ty oscript capitals. A

Of the sai drawingsFigure 1 designates an arbitrar sign or character that may be first printer in carrying out the process. Fig. 2 represents a small lette'r a as printed in the space the capital a (A) would have occupied, and indicating a capital a (A). Fig. 3 represents a series of words in typ'oscript, some of which are capitalized in accordance with my method. l

' Like numerals of parts.

In carrying out my improvement In the art of capitalizing typoscript letters, I fit into reference designate like Specification of Letters Patent.

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an ordinary type-bar ot a machine an arbitrary character or sign. in the i'orm of a type, for-example, merely, like that shown in Fig. l, and so dispose or place the character in type on the type-bar that when its key is' struck by the typosc ribe, the character will be printed on the margin of the space substantially once in advance of where the ty e would ordinarily strike. The typoscri. e will next strike the key bearing a small letter of the if used. alone would have, which small letter will be minted in the spaceon the margin of which tie capital sign 10, Fig. 1, was just bplore imprinted; and, supposing the key last operated to bear the small letter a, the imprints will appear as at 11, Fig. 2, thus capitalizing said letter.

Proceeding as before stated in writing words of a sentence,

as shown in Fig. 3, thecapitnlizat ion of a letter at-the beginning of a word may be formed by simply striking a common capitalizing key directly after linishing the previous space-bar would ordinaril then proceeding at the the key bearing the small letter to be capitalized, which as stated, will be imprinted within the margin upon which the capitalizing sign was justimprinted. in this way the operation at the space-bar is made unnecessary, as is also the shifting of the platen or the striking oi an individual key of a number necessary to contain the entire alphabet. lt will thus be seen that a stroke-is gained in forming or imprinting each capital letter over some kinds oi ty -e-writers (machines), or the use of an individual key in other kinds of type-writers, and in all cases simplifying the operation of capitalizing and ive character ol the machine.

It is to be noted that the capitalizing sign may be of any other form or character suitable for the purpose from that shown.

The important features of the method are that the capitalizing of all letters is effected through the medium of a single key, time onabling the typ'oscribe to increase her or his s eed quite materially. An advantage is a so gained outside of the limits of the presword, and when the the construct"-' same alphabetical name as the capital ter, and than imprinting the said. letter in said sgace and 1 him the said character.

In testimony whereof, I affix my sigmature, in presence 0f 5W0 Witnesses.

HEN WISE.

11% invention, in that fine mechanism of the 1e riter is greatly simplified, and its 00st correspondingly reduced.

Thu of capitalizing "nyposcript letiers which aofnsisw in first imprinting a csupitalizing sham-aim sign on the margin of the space is be occup ied by the capitalized let- Witnesses 1331mm J. PACE, Mrs. E. J. :PAOE. 

